This is one area that is really close to my heart. And you know what. The BC Jobs plan FB site has gotten busier since the ads started running. At times perhaps taxing the office full of Govt employees from the ministry of Government Communications and Public Engagement to the point where they banned a facebook follower in November who was reposting BC JOBS Plan posts in mandarin so that the Chinese Miners in Tumbler Ridge could read the posts too.
Who is on the BC Jobs Plan Facebook Page?
Candace the Electrician is defending the Govt for giving her her trade.
A lot of older men who cant find work because there is no help for them to find work .
And a handful of Liberal trolls telling the unemployed who cant find work to "go to school and start with kindergarten"

Has Christys ads and facebook page got me a job? Nope. Will it ever? hah dont think so. Its all just a big smoke screen just like a twobit magic show.

Risky Clark has lost 20,000 jobs in January so much for risky Clark's16 Million $$$$$ of BC taxpayer's $$$$ jobs plan.Another sign the corrupt BC lie berals are done.We do not want you risky Clark you are a arrogant useless in elected premier.

That would Jobs for Chinese Miners?

It's great that the FB page is getting so many visitors but that is not the point that NDP are trying to make here. This is partisan advertising, end of story. This government criticized such advertising when Campbell was premier but but now they're childish response is "if the NDP did it, so can we".

One important note on the advertising dollars that the Liberals claim were spent by the NDP is that not all of it was as partisan as what the Liberals are doing today. What numbers are the BC Liberals looking at? Tourism BC advertising, BC Parks advertising, what numbers are BC Liberals using?

This is not necessarily bad spending however it does smack of political advertising on the taxpayer dime, money taken out of a contingency fund set up by the BC Liberals in case of an emergency and this type of advertising in my kind does not constitute an emergency. In addition, the figures used are misleading if not outright false. BC is not leading Canada in job growth or job creation. BC has been put on watch by a credit agency because the debt is fast approaching an unsustainable number. Lowest taxes mean nothing when the budget has been more in the red than the black over the past twelve years, only five balanced budgets that have only come from BC Hydro deferring its own debt by decades if not longer.

Lastly, this government has always maintained itself to be of higher caliber than any other before it yet they then use the spending of a government they once condemned of doing this very same thing as an example of why this type of spending is okay.

I have no problem spending money on advertising as long as it's a party's money, and not public funds. My concern is that the amount of money paid to the media may influence their editorial department - after all who wants to lose the advertising revenue?

Every political party in power does it, the Liberals and the NDP. They are both guilty of it., so can't really point fingers at each other like a bunch of little kids.